This must be stated quite differently, for example thus: in view of the predominant importance of raising agricultural production and increasing its output, at the present moment the policy of the proletariat toward the kulaks and well-to-do peasantry must be directed chiefly at restricting their exploitative strivings, etc.

How to restrict these strivings, how to defend the poor—this is something our state must and can do—therein lies the whole essence. This must be studied and those responsible must be compelled to study it practically, while general phrases are empty.